May 2008

!!!!!!!!!!!!New Lake record common !!!!!!!!!!!!, 1st May

Congratulation to Tony from Mr Jones' party for the new lake record common at 41.10.

This superb looking fish is also his new personal best common! Well done!

Tony caught also a 36lb 5oz, a 33lb 4oz , a 31lb, a 30lb, etc.  Well done too to the young Nathan for catching his Personal best mirror at 30lb.

The pegs at Old Oaks are still wet after all the spring rains so please bring waterproof boots with you.

Mehdi

Apr 2007

Pineapple Anti-Poisson Boilies, 1st Apr

Hi David, I think I have got a very good story for the pineapple baits.

Mr Price team fishing in Old Oaks this week. He comes to see me the second day because he caught 3 poissons chats and had many liners with his fusion baits. I sell him 2 bags of the 5kg Pineapple Crush and he had 3 carp (20lb, 27lb, 27lb) in the same day!!!

And during all the week, he never had another problem with chats and even no liners and the baits still perfectly 20mm in the morning! He tried a double bottom baits with a fusion and a pineapple crush. When he reeled the pineapple still intact but the fusion was already eaten!

One of the Old Oaks guys had a fantastic commom new pb at 35lb.

Best regards, Mehdi

Jan 2007

Old Oaks News!, 1st Jan

Firstly, we wish a Happy New Year 2007 to every angler and especially good health.

Many thanks to all our customers who spent time with us in 2006, respected our rules and made for such a good atmosphere at the venue. We had many repeat bookings, with many regulars; this is the best proof you can offer to us, that we are on the right track.

The 2006 season has been an excellent fishing year with several pb’s broken and many happy anglers. Some spectacular catches have been recorded, for example:

Mr Daniel Laughton-Zimmerman party in April caught 65 carp! Mostly good twenties including 6 x 29lb'er plus 15 thirties to 36lb 8oz with a total average of 27lb+!

The following week, Mr Farnell party managed 36 carp including 11 thirties and 2 first lake record mirror at 38lb and common at 36lb 8oz!

Mr Pichon in May had 19 carp including 9 thirties! Mr Bolderson party in September caught 66 carp and smashed all theirs Pbs!

Mr Dyer, son and father, managed 21 carp including 14 thirties to 36lb!

Mr Peel and his friend caught 37 fish with 10 thirties to 34lb 8oz etc..... The most amazing week was with Mr Bowler party who totallised a record of 96 carp between 3 anglers!

Well done to everybody!

Hopefully, you will be the first to hook one of the big catfish or maybe the 40lb'er grass carp! Although the lake record mirror stands at 38lb there are now a total of 4 different forties up to 42lb & 37lb for the common. A bigger common (a deep bodied around 40lb'er) is also swimming but still avoiding the capture.

There are also some good pike, roach, tench, rudd, perch and black bass (4lb 3oz last year). You can use a fourth light rod for coarse fishing.

Old Oaks is a runs/action water. The fishing is easy and very comfortable with platform swims, short fishing distance, and young fish. The facilities are top class and brand new.

A bed of boilies with hemp and partiblend will attract carp. However, don’t forget to bring mesh net, plastic baits like plastic pop-ups, sweet corn and rock hard boilies to avoid the poisson chats which can be a problem (mostly during the hottest months of the season). Bring big unhooking mats and a good antisceptic like medi carp too.

Baitboats: We would like to point out that baitboats are always allowed in Old Oaks. They are very useful to bring your baits under the overhanging trees. Due to reliability problems, we have sold our 2 Lakestar baitboats but we are building 2 new baitboats for the coming season. They will be available from mid March.

Winter improvements: During the winter, we have worked hard to improve the fishery. We had promised during 2006, some improvement and we are at the moment working on these. We have brought in more earth to some pegs to avoid the rain damage problem and cut down some of the old and dead trees. We will also plant some new trees.

New fish stocks: During the first week of January, we received some new fish  for Old Oaks.  We have carefully selected each fish...young, fast growing, different shapes and scales patterns. 
We have also stocked 4 new big mirrors: a superb heavily scaled carp of 37lb; another long 37lb’er and 2 forties at 40lb and 42lb (lake record!) So now, anglers will have runs and runs and the chance catch a lump!

We hope all these details will improve the comfort of your holiday and will satisfy you.
Thanks you very much. Happy new year with plenty of carp.

Tight lines
Mehdi